TIME’S SECRET.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 201, 18 August 1921, Page 6

TIME’S SECRET.

; WAS HAWAII ONCE PART OF AUSTRALIA? Sydeyn, August 10. Professor Lawson, of the Chair of Botany at the Sydney University, welcomed to Sydney the other day an interesting friend in the person of his old chief at Stanford University, Dr. D. H. Campbell, whose knowledge of the world’s plants would be.hard to excel. Dr. Campbel! has been surprised by the similarity between some Australian plants and those of Hawaii, especially between acasia of the latter and the wattle here. He accepts it as an indication that there must at one time have been much larger land formations in the Pacific, for America, which is much nearer the Hawaiians, has none of these similarities. “Hawaii,” *he says, “undoubtedly must have been nearer to Australia at one time, but by earth disturbances at distant periods in the past areas intervening have been swept away.” This, / together with animal similarities, ho regards as most remarkable. During his visit he intends to prosecute investigations in North Queensland and Western Australia.